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Tell HN: I don't think humans add much to the universe
We don't even understand the universe.
- krunck 3y agoThey are better at increasing entropy faster than a pile of regolith does.
- zzo38computer 3y agoIt does not have to add much to the universe. Even the things which does not add much to the universe is still something.
- lantry 3y agowhy do we have to "add" anything? isn't it enough to just exist?
- aramndrt 3y agoAs Carl Sagan famously said, 'the cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.'
- frankjr 3y agoThat's like saying a drop of water doesn't add much to the ocean.
- EA-3167 3y agoThe idea that a bunch of primates on a single rock, orbiting a very ordinary star at the edge of a typical galaxy would have the capacity to "understand the universe"... whatever that mean... is pretty comical to me. So many people read Douglas Adams' works and yet they seem to have missed a big point. We don't know the answer, because we don't even know the question. Even if it we did it's pure human arrogance to imagine that the questions and answers relating to a potentially infinite existence is something we could hope to address. It isn't our job to add something to the universe, just like the universe we simply exist and then we won't. That is all.
- sillywalk 3y agoI thought matter/energy couldn't be created or destroyed? So, nothing adds anything to the universe.
- iAm25626 3y agoaccording to who? Taking nihilism point of view: we are nothing but.a ephemeral spec of dust in cosmo epoch. to me/subjectively I matter a heck whole lot to myself :-)
- CrypticShift 3y ago> We don't even understand the universe. Exactly... Only when we (better ?) understand the universe will we know if (and how) we (meaningfully) add much to it.
- quantified 3y agoWe add humans. Not much but it's something.